Marin County Biographies
BENJAMIN HARRINGTON, JR.
Transcribed by Betty Wilson, September, 2004.
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm
Born in Durham, Cumberland county, Maine,
May 5, 1830. He received his education in the common schools in his native
State. Moved to Cook county, Illinois, where he remained during the year 1852,
thence via Nicaragua to California, in company with John H. Osgood, arriving
April 11, 1853. He at once went to the mines at Placerville, thence to Amador
county, where he remained about six years. He came to this county in the Fall
of 1862; and bought his present farm in company with Mr. Osgood, said place
being located about two miles from Valley Ford, Sonoma county. He has since
bought out his partner. Is unmarried.
�History of Marin County, California�, Alley, Brown & Co., Publishers, San
Francisco, 1880